Yep. And the reality is that about 2/3 of those kids really don't need to be playing "travel" baseball. Their skill level just isn't there. Most of them still should be playing recreation baseball and just having fun with it instead of working at it. But most parents can't understand that their son just doesn't have the ability to be the next major league superstar. Daddy ball isn't helping their sons, and in fact, it's burning them out at a very early age more times than not.
Yep....have one of those families that lives across the street from me. Both their kids play travel ball from March till early November. They play the Summer league till the end of August, take Sept. off and start the Fall league in early Oct.
I hardly see them for months because they are never home.....Good people, but I don't see where they have the money to afford to be gone 20-25 weekends a year.... That crap isn't cheap.